LCD prices have been falling steadily over the years, to the extent where humongous panels are actually affordable to many. For some, it is a necessity to drive large panels for work (e.g. media manipulation) in 2D even when the budget does not allow for a highend 3D graphics acceleration. When the graphics accelerator cannot keep up to speed in 3D, users (those who play the occassional game) are forced to run at lower resolutions. LCD panels understandably, do not display images sharply when forced to downsample below native resolution. Larger Video RAM buffers are supposed to alleviate the lag resulting from extra large textures in high resolution gaming. We took the opportunity to test Vvikoo's purported 1GB graphics buffer.

Dell's 3007WFP.

Using Level 5 on both World and Texture detail settings, we ran a timedemo of Heat Ray at 2560x1600 to obtain 60.84FPS on the Eagle and 56.56FPS on the Vvikoo. Here it becomes apparent that clockspeeds still decide the real-world speeds on in-game graphics.

With all but the largest screens, it would be unlikely for anyone to see a performance improvement with a 1GB graphics accelerator at the moment. Considering the lower memory clocks and slower latencies asscociated with more Video Memory, it may not be a wise idea to spend your dollar on those unused MBs.